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Show H ' Utm'TVFm"WKJEJ ""'"""""'"""' ' - ! i.i ! i H V UKmrlm "ma ahfViwiW H A iX "?7 3m MF&JB lWWWWWI H 1 ati&K' iL- fin H BESSIE ABOTT, GRAND OPERA STAR IN "ROBIN HOOD." FIOW of tlioxu who llHtun to tho MMmllmn notes or Maid Mnrliin In tlio Btnr ruvtval or "Itohln Hood" will Know tlmt tlio prluiR dontiR, Mlsa HchsIo Ahott, who has won n IiIkIj place umoiiK Hj Krnml opunt singers, achieved her Urst hiiccobh ns a music hnll H artlMt 8ho lind no thought or onturltiK xrnnd opera until Jonn do H Hw.lo. who heard her slue ut a rthip'a concert, advised her to study In H New Yorli ami Paris While Ht III very youiiR. MIhh Ahott becainu o H favorite at tho Paris Opera, maWliiK her debut n MarRiiorlto In CJou H nod's "Knun." Durlnts hor tiiiropenn career ahu hns BiinK.by special H command liotoro tlmknte Ktnu Mdwfml and the Klnjj nnrt queen ot; Hr tpr?llftttH,f' Af",s Abott comes of an od colonial family or Sontb Carolina, her H real name being I'lckcus. |
